Palate Coffee Brewery needs its volunteer baristas like it needs its apple-spiced chai frappé ingredients for apple-spiced chai lattés (which taste great by the way). But being a volunteer barista is more than submitting a form and getting to sample our house coffee.

When I signed up to volunteer for Palate Coffee Brewery, I was nervous about having to engage with customers. The atmosphere thrives on camaraderie. The baristas ask how a customer’s family is doing. They remember which drink someone orders. As a new recruit, I saw that as my standard.

Native American reservations. The jungles of Guyana. Safe houses for victims of human-trafficking. These are a few of the many sites where Carl and Tina Kadolph, the owners of Palate Coffee Brewery, minister to those in need.

Did you know all the profits go to fight human trafficking? Palate Coffee Brewery is part of Tina and Carl Kadolph’s anti-trafficking nonprofit Love Missions. They raise awareness in the community and take yearly trips to Guyana to build safe houses for girls rescued out of the sex trade. Pretty cool, huh?